What did you buy today?
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Also a great mosquito breeding tank.A 6-foot galvanised cattle water trough.....
.....For soaking brown willow for weaving, obviously
Put it near a downpipe so I can put a diverter in and fill from rainwater run off, it will do secondary duty as a dip tank for garden watering. The location also puts the drain hole over a drain.
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I have a large pond further up the garden and no mozzies yet. This is midge country not mozzie land.
We also have bats, swallows and swifts.
So much standing water around here, another tank ain't going to make any difference.
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I like the idea of a tank big enough to soak willow....mind it'll stink though. I bought a length of drainpipe and capped it, it works for a small amount, but not if I'm doing something big.
You are so right about the midge country thing though. I live in hopes that we never see an influx of mozzies, though they are here, just not in huge numbers....yet
I think we'd really be in trouble if they did come in numbers because there is so much standing water around us. From the road drains to puddles, from wee ponds to burns, even plant pot saucers, let alone the boggy and marshy bits.
You are so right about the midge country thing though. I live in hopes that we never see an influx of mozzies, though they are here, just not in huge numbers....yet
I think we'd really be in trouble if they did come in numbers because there is so much standing water around us. From the road drains to puddles, from wee ponds to burns, even plant pot saucers, let alone the boggy and marshy bits.
I am fitting a drain valve to the tank bung hole, and it will sit where I can just open the valve to empty it..... so it can easily be emptied and refilled every day or two, which is apparently the best way to avoid the stink. Also helps keeps the water clean for plant watering (dip tanks are so much easier to use than a water butt tap), not like we're short of water around here.....
I will prob also get some blocks to put it on, better working level. My back will thank me when I am watering the veggies!
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I will prob also get some blocks to put it on, better working level. My back will thank me when I am watering the veggies!
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Can’t you attach some ooze tube ands save yourself the watering cans?
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Apparently Ooze Tube is a trade name for something different. There is a semi porous tube that you can thread through your veg and droplets of water ooze out through the material.
I’ll try and find a name.
Like this.
Edited to add:
Apparently Ooze Tube is a trade name for something different. There is a semi porous tube that you can thread through your veg and droplets of water ooze out through the material.
I’ll try and find a name.
Like this.
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I had a soaker hose running behind some plants that were in full sun at our house in NJ. Not permanently connected to anything, but I could hook it up to a hose to a tap and give those plants a good, slow drink on days when they were wilting
Bought earlier but arrived yesterday, a nice little Dietz Comet manufactured in 1938
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Bought earlier but arrived today, another lantern for my collection, Kenyon Road lantern dated 1959
Brisa Crafter knife. Small fine blade, just the job for finer work, better than expected. Fills the gap between a puukko size knife and a carving knife.
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Well, it was having just completed the restoration of my Tilley Guardsman and having just acquired a Bushlite ( in my view better than UCO), I was casting around for ' what next '
@Silverclaws2
These guys can get you a fix when you need one.
Just remember the Steam Tent burned 65litres of kerosene in two nights at Summer Moot!!
These guys can get you a fix when you need one.
Just remember the Steam Tent burned 65litres of kerosene in two nights at Summer Moot!!
Those guys, yeah, am already a member.
And yeah, the Steam Tent crowd have been an influence, and a help in a way as regards a piece of music I was searching for the name of .... Troika
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